Bu, benim geldiğim yerde çok yaygın bir tabir.
- That's a very common phrase where I come from.
İhtiyacım olabilecek bazı Fransızca tabirleri bana öğretir misiniz?
- Could you teach me some French phrases that I might need?
Bu ifade kullanışlı olabilir.
- This phrase might come in handy.
İfade insanlara hakaret etmek anlamına gelir.
- The phrase is meant to insult people.
Sen bu sözcük grubunu tırnak içine alman gerekir.
- You should put this phrase in quotation marks.
Bu sözcük grubunun anlamı nedir?
- What is the meaning of this phrase?
Neden sessiz ol yerine sakin ol sözcük öbeğini kullanıyorsun?
- Why do you use the phrase calm down instead of calm up?
Just how tiresome was it to argue straight against the phrase Don't blindly follow the lead of the United States!
- Just how tiresome was it to argue straight against the phrase Don't blindly follow America's lead!
Just how tiresome was it to argue straight against the phrase Don't blindly follow America's lead!
- Just how tiresome was it to argue straight against the phrase Don't blindly follow the lead of the United States!
This term would be useful as a phrase-book entry.
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Bally remarks in passing, as Hall does not, that the inversion in toujours est-il que is part of a set phrase and hence invariable.
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